Quotes About Learning

You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?

I'm a grown woman. I can come up with plenty of things that I've done and said or didn't say or failed to do that remain with me as sources of embarrassment.

Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources; many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them.

I always use primary sources, in addition to reading biographies and other materials.

Being one of my sources is exhausting. It's not one interview and you're done. I keep going back until I feel like I understand everything.

If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.

For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge.

I am happy to playing against teams like South Africa and Australia early on in my career. It is going to make me stronger as a cricketer.

My parents both played tennis in South Africa. I learned from them.

I went to a number of schools when I was a kid on the south side of Chicago.

It started off with me being all the way influenced by Atlanta and southern music but I knew my sound had to grow - I started learning melodies.

In 1996, I received a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Southern California.

I grew up in the age of discount air fare, and for me, the act of joining a culture was a great way about learning about that different culture. So I grew up in the South, and went to college in the North, and found out that I learned about myself as a Southerner by leaving the South and going to the Northeast.

When the Soviet Union collapsed, the television businesses found it was easier to hire 16- or 18-year-olds and teach them everything from the beginning rather than re-teach the old-school folk.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

Everything is a learning lesson, good and bad, so I am happy with the way things are, and I learned from everything negative. I am in a great space now, so I wouldn't change a thing!

My coaches - and even my parents - wanted to give me the space for exploration to see what I could do. Or even to see what I couldn't do and what I would want to learn how to do. It was always about inspiring me and giving me that freedom that you would want in childhood.

When I was in kindergarten, I remember looking at picture books of the space shuttle.

I think every time we send a spacecraft to an asteroid or comet, we learn more.

Being incarcerated does not mean being devoid of the capacity to learn, grow, and think, and it's critical that prisons provide spaces where learning can be both cultivated and encouraged.

Flipping our classrooms into active learning spaces really is important and having these convenient spaces where people feel comfortable.

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

I didn't speak much Italian. I did a few courses so I knew a bit before I got there but you have to be there to learn. When I went out for lunch or dinner on my own it was very complicated to order. I spent two months eating the same thing. I always asked for spaghetti carbonara and a fizzy drink. Then I had to diet to lose the weight I gained.